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“Es ist auch mir gewiss, dass wir in der Ordnung bleiben muessen, dass es den Austritt aus der Gesellschaft nicht gibt und wir uns aneinander pruefen muessen. Innerhalb der Grenzen aber haben wir den Blick gerichtet auf das Vollkommene, das Unmoegliche, Unerreichbare, sei es der Liebe, der Freiheit oder jenen reinen Groesse. Im Widerspiel des Unmoeglichen mit dem Moeglichen erweitern wir unsere Moeglichkeiten. Dass wir es erzeugen, dieses Spannungsverhaeltnis, an dem wir wachsen, darauf, meine ich, kommt es an; dass wir uns orientieren an einem Ziel, dass freilich, wenn wir uns naehern, sich noch einmal entfernt.”

“I, too, am aware that we have to stay within the order, that there is no exit from society, and that we have to prove ourselves against one another. Within these limitations, though, we have our sight set on the perfect, the impossible, the unreachable, be it love, freedom, or any other pure concept. In the interplay between the impossible with the possible we increase our possibilities. That we create this relationship of tension through which we grow, that, I think, is the important part; that we orient ourselves on a goal, which, as we come closer, removes itself further from our grasp.”

Ingeborg Bachmann

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